036 RR RubyGems

by Charles Max Wood on January 5, 2012

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ahmy
ahmy

Why did rubygems move from heroku ?

zimbatm
zimbatm

Regarding mirroring If the specs are not mirrored and modified to include a checksum of the .gem file, then we can trust external sources by verifying that checksum. The gem command-line could then be updated to also fetch a mirror list on `gem update`.

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